Box Score

TOUGALOO, Miss. - A nine-run eighth inning would prove to be the difference on Saturday afternoon as the sixth-ranked Georgia Gwinnett baseball team completed a three-game sweep of Tougaloo with a 13-4 victory.

With the win, GGC has now won six consecutive games and improved to 41-8 on the year. The Grizzlies have yet to lose a three- or four-game series this season.

Tougaloo fell to 5-33.

The offense erupted at just the right time for GGC Head Coach Brad Stromdahl as the Green and Gray found themselves behind 4-3 heading into the game's final two frames. GGC's offense would answer the challenge emphatically, as 15 Grizzlies would make the walk to the plate in the eighth, pounding out six hits and earning another six walks.

"Their pitcher really kept us at bay all day, and that inning exemplified the way that we like to play," Stromdahl said. "William Paschal and Brady Shoppe led off with really big walks, and then Trey Haygood laid down a bunt that turned into a hit and loaded the bases. We had some big hits after that, and it just opened up for us. It was a good approach by everyone in the line-up that whole inning."

GGC went on to out-hit the hosts 14-4, with the bottom two hitters on the line-up card, Michael Hodorowski and Jereid Woods, serving has the lead run-producers despite 1-for-4 outings at the plate. The duo combined to knock in seven runs, and in all, five other Grizzlies registered two-hit days.

Joseph Boatright got the start on the mound for the Green and Gray and picked up his second win of the season, allowing just a pair of unearned runs on one hit over five innings of work.

After Tougaloo capitalized on a Marcus McCorkle error in the third to score the game's first run, GGC bounced back a few minutes later as Ty Abbott was hit by a pitch and later scored on a Shoppe single.

The two sides would once again trade scores in the bottom of the fifth and the top of the sixth, with Haygood providing the GGC response, scoring on a Hodorowski sacrifice fly. It was Abbott's turn for a sac fly an inning later as the Grizzlies grabbed their first lead of the ball game at 3-2.

Singles from Tougaloo's Corlis Oliver and Jabari Carr brought home a run apiece as the Bulldogs counterpunched in the bottom of the seventh, but the effort was all for naught as GGC mounted one of its more impressive frames of the season in the top of the eighth.

Paschal became the third GGC player to record a sac fly in the game in the top of the ninth, bringing home McCorkle for the game's final score.

GGC, which was originally scheduled to take on USC Aiken on Sunday, will now play its next game on Tuesday at Reinhardt due to expected inclement weather. First pitch is slated for 6 p.m.

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